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Health Psychology
• Health psychology examines the relationship
between psychological behavior and physical
health/illness
• Focus of health psychology is on
– Wellness
– Prevention of illness
• Many major causes of death are related to
behavior and lifestyle rather than to infections
– Smoking, drinking, risky sex are causes of death that
can be prevented
© 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Huffman: PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION, 6E